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Showing posts with label poems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poems. Show all posts
Friday, 28 February 2025

Poetry Shapes Us

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  While Burns loved the lassies, his legacy is much deeper and more wide-ranging poetically than his love life. Some of his songs are so fam...
Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Was Robert Burns a Reformer, a Jacobin or a Supporter of King George

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  There has been a debates over Burns political views. Its particularly difficult because Burns had to play all sides in order to earn a liv...
Sunday, 29 October 2023

Romanticism in Scotland

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  Nigel Leask rites Burns has been tragically over-looked in academic studies and the need to consider Burns in a de-centralized four nation...
Monday, 31 May 2021

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (EBB)

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  “After the first Anglo-Sikh war in India, one of these days our great Indian empire, will stand up on its own legs and make use of our own...
Wednesday, 31 March 2021

Scots Makar Jackie Kay

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  Excellent chat with Jackie Kay with Janice Forsyth  about  her 5 years as the Scots Makar on BBC Scotland’s afternoon show -    https://ww...
Thursday, 5 March 2020

The Highest Apple

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The Highest Apple An Abhal as Airde "The best apple will be on the higher bough."   An Anthology of Scottish Gael...
Saturday, 23 November 2019

The Songs of Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne

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*The Flower of Strathearn* Carolina loved to sing and dance, and studied music from the great fiddler Niel Gow – she composed a...
Sunday, 29 September 2019

Centenary Hamish Henderson at Edinburgh book festival 2019

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Hamish Henderson Like Burns before him, he looked to the traditions of the Gaelic and Scots ballads, and he gave expression to a nation...
Saturday, 8 April 2017

*Poetry changes Lives - W B Yeats

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POETRY – is the window to our souls, the hidden beauty, the longed for memory, the secret truths, the way nature sings…. Poetry is conn...